Poem of the Week | July 02, 2013
Ellen Bryant Voigt: "Liebesgedicht"
This week we’ve dug up a gem of a love poem by the inimitable Ellen Bryant Voigt. We first published this poem in issue 4.2, the “gnarled oak issue,” winter, 1980. A trained musician hailing from rural Virginia, Voigt has had an illustrious career since the mid-seventies when her first book Claiming Kin turned heads; she also that year started the first low-residency MFA at Goddard. Her newest book is Headwater: Poems (Norton, 2013). She lives and teaches in Vermont and serves as Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets.
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